Lot 57

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep, first edition, for John Murray, 1816; and another by the same (2)

Hammer Price: £1,100

Description

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep, first edition, with half-title and all fly-titles but lacking 4pp. advertisements at end, half-title slightly creased at upper corner, C1 chip to lower margin, occasional underlining and a few marginal scribbles in pencil, some soiling and staining, bound with numerous blank leaves at end, library bookplate, 19th century half morocco, small library sticker to spine foot, some wear to corners, joints and extremities rubbed, [Wise Coleridge 32], for John Murray, 1816; and a uniformly bound third edition of Coleridge's Remorse (1813), 8vo (2)

⁂ The first printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems.

Description

Coleridge (Samuel Taylor) Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep, first edition, with half-title and all fly-titles but lacking 4pp. advertisements at end, half-title slightly creased at upper corner, C1 chip to lower margin, occasional underlining and a few marginal scribbles in pencil, some soiling and staining, bound with numerous blank leaves at end, library bookplate, 19th century half morocco, small library sticker to spine foot, some wear to corners, joints and extremities rubbed, [Wise Coleridge 32], for John Murray, 1816; and a uniformly bound third edition of Coleridge's Remorse (1813), 8vo (2)

⁂ The first printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems.

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